xii, 337 pages ; 23 cm

A collection of writings on life after death by such philosophers as John Locke, Plato, Thomas Reid, Voltaire, H.H. Price, Tertullian, and Joseph Butler. Touches upon the ideas of an afterlife, transmigration of the soul, reincarnation, disembodied existence of the soul, the nature of the consciousness, and more

Originally published: New York : Macmillan Pub. Co., 1992

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-337)

The release of the soul from the chains of the body / Plato -- The mind and the spirit will die / Lucretieus -- The refutation of the Pythagorean doctrine of transmigration / tertullian -- The resurrection of man / St. Thomas Aquinas -- The incorporeal soul and its body / Rene Descartes -- Personal identity, consciousness and the immaterial substance / John Locke -- Of a future life / Joseph Butler -- Of personal identity / David Hume -- Of the immortality of the soul / David Hume -- The soul, identity and immortality / Voltaire -- Of the nature and origin of our notion of personal identity / Thomas Reid -- Refutation of Mendelssohn's proof of the permanence of the soul / Immanuel Kant -- Materialism, personal identity and life after death / Joseph Priestley -- Immortality / John Stuart Mill -- The theory of the soul / William James -- Tantalus / Hugh Elliot -- The objections to epiphenomenalism / John Foster -- Preexistence, reincarnation and karma -- Survival as transmigration / C.J. Ducasse -- Karmic tribulations / Paul Edwards -- What kind of next world? / H.H. Price -- The Cartesian assumption / Antony Flew -- Immortality / Peter Geach -- Ther ecreation of the psycho-physical person / John Hick -- The possibility of resurrection / Peter van Inwagen -- Computer software and life after death / Donald MacKay -- The evidence from psychical research / Paul and Linda Badham -- Is there anything beyond death? A parapsychologist's summation / John Beloff -- What I saw when I was dead / A.J. Ayer -- On survival without a body / C.D. Broad -- Is the notion of disembodied existence intelligible? / John Hospers -- Consciousness, the brain and immortality / William James -- The dependence of consciousness on the brain / Paul Edwards -- Divided minds and the nature of persons / Derek Parfit

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